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mancebo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
mancebo.
Principal English Translation: 

a youth
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

itoca macebo ca ça macuili peso yc onechpalehui ynic omotlapo acalotli = al que llaman mancebo, no le di más que cinco pesos en lo que ayudó a abrir la zanja o acequia (Tlatelolco, 1609)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 68–69.

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